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10 TTTR MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY. AUGUST 30, 1912. SERGEAfi IT KAY IS REDUCED TO RANKS Slover's Personal Choice for "Moral" Work Is in Trouble Again CITIZEN BRINGS CHARGES Patrolman Stewart, Also Included in Affair, Will Don Uniform Again. Chief Says Kay Now Will Tender Resignation. After being reinstated by the Civil Service Commission at the personal re quest of Chief Slover in order that he might do special "moral" work, Ser geant of Police Kay was yesterday afternoon ordered reduced to the ranks by John B. Coffey. Waldemar Seton and .W. H. Fitzgerald, members of the Ei ecutlve Board police committee. This action was taken without Ser geant Kay being given any opportunity to be heard by the committee, and he was unaware that any complaint what ever was being made against him. 8. 8. Rich, proprietor of a cigar store and newsstand at Third and Morrison streets, had Just complained verbally to the committee that Sergeant Kay and Patrolman Stewart, in placing him under arrest for selling cigarettes to a minor, had abused him by refusing to allow him to walk to the station or to call a taxicab in which to make the trip; that instead, they Vthrew" him Into the police patrol wagon and there by disgraced him. No formal charges were made by Bleb, who admitted very frankly that lie sold the cigarettes to a minor and that It was not his first offense, but lie declared he would file written charges later. Rich Is Indignant. I wish to enter the strongest kind of a complaint against the two police men who arrested me," said Mr. Rich, when he appeared before the commit tee. "I am a business man and have Jived in Portland many years; I am taxpayer and also pay heavy rent. consider that Kay and Stewart are not the proper kind of men to have on the police force and I want both of them dismissed, if the committee pleases. do not deny that I sold the cigarettes, but the manner in which I was treated by the policemen was not right. I asked that I be permitted to ride in a taxicab, for which I would pay, or that I be allowed to walk to the police station. but they threw me into the patrol wagon, which was backed up to the curb in front of my place, much to my chagrin and humiliation. This, too, despite the fact that Deck Officer Sor- enson, of the first relief, to whom I appealed by telephone, told me to walk or call a taxi. 1 want to see this thing through to the finish, and I want those policemen put off the force, if possible. or at least that they be censured." Chairman Coffey informed Mr. Rich that written charges must be filed be fore the committee could take cognl lance of the affair, and Mr. Rich left, laying that he would file such charges ind that he would fight the case to the and. FitsKerald Demands Action. After Mr. Rich had left the room, Mr. Fitxgerald voluntarily returned to the subject, although other business had been taken up meanwhile. "In view of the frequent complaints , lodged against these two officers," said Mr. Fitzgerald, "I move that they be reduced to the ranks." "Second the motion," quickly aald Mr. Beton. It was pointed out by Chairman Coffee that Stewart is only a patrolman now, but Mr. Seton said, "well, be is working in plain clothes." and the or der was entered. Stewart will, there fore, be placed on a beat by the Chief, . and Sergeant Kay will be treated like wise. The Chief expressed the .opinion that Sergeant Kay will resign, rather than suffer the humiliation of reduc tion and the resultant decrease in pay. Sergeant Kay has for years been the storm center of the police department. He was the original leader of the "moral squad" which was first organ Ized during the regime of Dr. Harry Lane as Mayor. He participated in all manner of the roost sensational of raids on, lodging-houses, hotels and also in Chinatown, and was never out of trouble as a result. He resigned to live on a farm near Vancouver, Wash., three years ago. Several months ago, when the Civil Service Commission made a rule that any faithful employe, who had re signed, might be reinstated in the serv ice on recommendation of the depart' ment head. Kay was placed back' in harness at the personal request of Chief Slover. who told Mayor Rushlight that Kay was "Just the man" to do the "clean-up" work that was needed. Several Charges DlNmlxned. Being reinstated, Kay had scarcely put himself in line with conditions in the city when he was again making raids and was again in trouble. Charges have been filed against him several times since, but each time they have been dismissed as trivial or no one ap peared to prosecute. Although Chief Slover's attitude to ward Kay is well known and although the Chief was present at the meeting, the members of the committee did not consult him as to their action, but summarily entered the order, directing him to reduce to the ranks the man he had sought to have placed at his dis position for the "moral work. Sergeant Kay has at times since his reinstatement clashed in court with his superior officer, Waldemar Seton, of the police committee. Seton has appeared at times as attorney for persons ar rested by Kay in certain raids. One particular case was that of Karl Tweedy, arrested May 25 by Kay on a charge of contributing to the delin quency of a minor, which was later changed to disorderly conduct. 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The Pacific Coast Steamship Com pany. Its officials say. will undoubt edly make corresponding reductions. Other steamship owners with the ex ception of the Humboldt Steamship Company which did not advance with the others, are expected to take sim ilar action. . V. Haines Said to Have TromL-e That Portland Man Will Act Provided He Is Xot Kxpected to Handle Finances. Organization will be effected and a plan of campaign outlined in Denan of the candidacy of President Taft and other Republican nominees by the Ke publican state central committee at a mpptlTUT In this CUV iflmorruw. . ic committee will convene at the impe rial Hotel at 1:30 P. M. tomorrow. Most important of the business to be transacted is the election of a state halrman and the selection or cam- nnisrn hnndmiarters. E. W. Haines, or Forest Rrove. who succeeded to the chairmanship of the committee fol lowing the resignation of Bruce Den iris, will surrender the office and it is understood C' B. Moores, of this city. will be named to succeed the Wash ington County man. Headquarters probably will be established in the Im perial Hotel. When in Portland 'Wednesday Mr. Haines called on Mr. Moores and miule the reciuest that the Portland man asrrfp to accept the chairmanship of the committee. It is understood that Mr. Moores has agreed to accept the office if he can be assured by the com mittee that the question of finances with which to conduct the campaign will be tackled by others. With only one or two exceptions, the committee is made up of staunch Taft supporters. They are enthusi astic in planning the organization of the committee and determining a vig orous campaign in support of the en tire ticket. advisory committee of the state or ganization. The members are L. H. McMahon. of Salom: I). L. Tovey, of Multnomah: Arthur V. Swift, of Baker, and Dr. Levi W. Myers, of Multnomah. Circulation of petitions for the legal organization of the Progressive party in this state was begun , yesterday. The work is In charge of Oliver M. Mickey, of this city, who is being assisted by the members of the state central committee of the proposed new political party. This task involves se curing approximately 7500 signatures between now and September 15. George r Rodgers, of Salem, will address a county mass meeting of third party followers at Eugene tomrrow. At the same time Chairman Brown will ad dress a similar meeting atTillamook. At the Tillamook gathering L. M. Lpppcr, state secretary of the proposed new party, will give his illustrated lecture on the Panama Canal. V. R. KIXG WILL START EAST Democratic National Committeeman Will Make-Addresses. W. R. King, Democratic National committeeman for Oregon, will leave Monday for Chicago, where he will serve at Democratic National headquar ters as a member of the advisory com mittee that will conduct the campaign for Wilson and Marshall. Mr. King was a member of the Oregon delega tion to the Baltimore convention. He expects to remain at the National head quarters throughout the two months preceding the November election, al though he may devote a portion of the time to addresses that will include an itinerary of some of the principal cities surrounding Chicago. With the arrival of llson and Mar shall lithographs and other campaign literature, everything is in readiness for the opening of Democratic state headquarters Monday in the Swetland building. A Suite of offices has been engaged and the state and county com mittees will maintain headquarters jointly. The rooms will be in charge of Bert E. Haney and H. B. Van Duzer, state and county chairman, respec tively. Will H. Merritt, a prominent Demo crat of Seattle, yesterday called on National Committeeman King and State Chairman Haney. Mr. Merritt origi nally was a Clark supporter, and was chairman of the Washington delega tion to the Baltimore convention. He is now traveling over the State of Washington organizing Wilson clubs. PARTY PETITIONS CIRCULATED Progressives Preparing for Legal Organization In State. Georg Arthur Brown, state chair man of the tentative Progressive paity, yesterday announced the appointment of four men, who with himself as ex-officio member will constitute the AUTO FEVER CONTAGIOUS JOYRIDING IX CITY MACHIXES CHARGED BY EMPLOYES. SETTLERS FIGHT TO RETAIN HOLDINGS Six Quarter Sections in Coos County Taken by Scrip Involved in Suit. INJUNCTION IS REQUESTED Street - Cleaning Department May Get in Limelight as Result of Personal Squabble. Joyriding has invaded the lowly ranks of the city's street-cleaning de partment and a mild scandal threaten to develoo. Allegations to the effect that "certain members' of a gang of street cleaners on the East Side have been using city conveyances at unseemly hours to transport women to and rro, cropped out at a meeting of the .Executive Board committee having charge of this department, when the members took ud. vesterdav afternoon, the case against David Cohn. He is foreman of tha cans- in auestion. and was charged by John Jorg with partiality in that he showed favors to J. E, Backenstos to the detriment and lnjus tice of others of the workmen. Jorg and four other workmen swore during the hearing that Cohn has forced Jorg to do more work than was Jorg's portion on cleaning of hard-sur faced streets. Jorg refused one morn ing to proceed with additional blocks of work and was suspended. He then filed his charges. Backenstos, it was sworn, was fre quently let off duty before his hours of labor for the city were ruihiiea, in order that he might cross over the river and sell papers. Cohn strongly denied the allegations, He said Backenstos always finished his duties before leaving. Cohn also charged that Jorg Is not a competent workman. George Bowman, formerly employed the gang, but now working for local .corporation, will be called at the next meeting of the committee. It is said that his testimony will create sensation. It will be relative to joy riding, in which a policeman is said to figure, with street-cleaning employes. COMMISSION QUESTION UP Council, to Decide Whether One or More Charters Will Go on Ballot. An adjourned session of the City Council will be held at 10 o'clock this morning to consider the subject of sub mitting to the voters one or more pro posed commission form charters, coun cilman Daly's proposed ordinance, cre ating a public service commission lor possibly acted upon. Mayor Rushlight Is strongly opposed to the submission of more than the "official" charter, drafted by a com mittee, of which he is the chairman, under instructions from the City Coun cil. He believes that It would bo waste of the public funds to order more than one to be voted on, and will fight anv effort to submit others. "It will cost about 114,000 to submit this question to the people at a special election, said the Mayor yesterday, "and if we are going to burden the ballot with a lot of charters drawn by anybody who wished to draw one. we may as well not have the election and thus save the money." The proposed commission charter drafted by the official committee, if submitted and adopted by the people, would take effect July 1, 1913, at the close of the present administration's term of office. It would be unneces sary, therefore, in that case to call a second special election to provide of ficers for the new government of the city, and thus a second item of expense would be saved. , Xortliern Pacific Issued Patent by Secretary of Interior and Trans- . fer Made to Weyerhaeuser Syn dicate, Says - Complaint. a patent of these lands to the North ern Pacific Railway Company and shortly afterwards the property w transferred to the Weyerhaeuser Land Company, the latter being in full knowledge of the above facts. A decree is asked that shall place the title of the property in the com plainants and an injunction is re quested that the defendants may not further cloud the title to the land dur ing the pendency of the suit. Six suits in equity were filed in the United States District Court yesterday against the Northern Pacific Railway Company and the Weyerhaeuser Land Company to recover that many quarter sections in Coos County. The plaintiffs in the suits are Al fred Brunnell, John A. Carlson, Jay C. Wilcox, Guy Gould, Herman Heitraan and Frank L. Lowe, the complaints in each being Identical except the de scription of the property Involved, which are quarter sections In town ship 25 south, range 9 west, all In Coos County, Oregon, with a vahie of $30,000 given in each case. Good Improvements Made. The complaints allege that the plain tiffs, on August 18, 1903, settled on the land as homesteads and Immediately thereafter erected commodious and comfortable dwellings, cleared a por tion of the land, raised, cultivated and harvested garden vegetables and other crops and made the land, their actual bona fide residences. The complain ants were residing on these lands on April 24, 1904, when the plat of the survey of said township was approved by the Commissioner of the United States General Land Office, and con tinued to reside upon and cultivate It until March 23, 1911, when it was pat ented to the Northern Pacific Railway Company. When the plat of the survey was filed October 9, 1909, the plaintiffs applied to the United States district land office, at Roseburg, to enter their properties as nomesteaas, out the ap plications were rejected on the ground that the land was embraced in the Northern Pacific Railway Company's selection list, made April 14, 1900, giv ing the right to said company to pur chase the land with scrip. This action of the district land office was later confirmed by the Commissioner of the United States General Land Office. Reasons Are Cited. After reciting the above facts the bill of complaint gives in the sixth section the grounds for relief as follows: That on the 4th day of April, 1900, the Northern Pacific Railway Company filed in the United States- Land Office at Roseburg its application for . said land by Northern Pacific lieu scrip, issued under act of Congress July 1, 1898, and, under the terms of said act such lieu scrip is restricted to lands which, at the time of the ap proval of the plat of survey by the Commissioner, are unsurveyed non mineral public lands to which no ad verse settlement right or claim shall have attached or been initiated; that at the time of the approval of the plat or survey of said township by the Commissioner, April 21, 1904, said land was not non-mineral unappropriated public lands to which no adverse right or claim shall have attached or been nitiated in this: That the settlement right or claim of the complainants had been attached and initiated thereto prior to the approval of the said plat by the Commissioner, which said set tlement, right or claim was at the time of the approval the actual bona fide and subsisting settlement right and claims of the complainants." 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